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Does The American Academy of Pediatrics Support Child Slavery?

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With each passing day, we are learning more and more disturbing details about what is proving to be the largest child sex trafficking operation in American history. For years, criminal gangs have been using our wide open border to bring in hundreds of thousands of kidnapped children. The media and the authorities are in the Orwellian linguistic habit of calling these victims “unaccompanied minors” – but their traffickers, pimps, and rapists are indeed accompanying them every step of the way.

Who can these poor, abused children look to for help? Their local doctor’s office may prove a tragic dead end. The American Academy of Pediatrics – our country’s largest and most influential pediatric organization – has facilitated the exploitation of these children every step of the way.

To understand the AAP’s guilt in this matter, place yourself for a moment in the twisted mind of a child trafficker. How could an evil American ally of yours best help you profit from your crimes?

1. By hysterically agitating against any efforts to close the border. You might think that the AAP, as a purportedly nonpartisan medical organization, would take no stance on divisive political issues. You’d be wrong. The AAP spent the entire first Trump administration putting out press release after press release raging against the president’s attempts to close the border, with a particular venom reserved for our Border Patrol’s efforts to remove children from unrelated adults – propaganda that resumed with relish as soon as Trump was reelected. Tellingly, that empathy for children took a four year nap during the Biden administration, as the AAP issued nary a peep about the countless children trafficked into a fate far, far worse than the “prisonlike conditions” of CBP custody. I always thought what made prison particularly prisonlike was the deprivation of liberty. If prison’s true purpose is, as the AAP believes, that one is saved from being handed over to criminal rape gangs, this puts a whole new twist on the ending of The Shawshank Redemption.

2. By ensuring that the child prostitutes don’t stay pregnant. Nothing endangers a pimp’s finances like his underaged victims carrying a pregnancy to term – think not just of the months of lost income, but the additional expense of new mouths to feed. Thankfully for the forces of evil, the AAP is one of the nation’s leading advocates for killing unborn babies – no pesky questions asked!

3. By picking up the tab for any expenses. Did one of your johns get a little ill-tempered and smack his teen sex slave around? Can’t afford to pay out of pocket for the xrays, what with her being ‘undocumented’ and all? Never fear, the AAP is here! As they explain, documentation is nothing but a by word for “systemic racism,” and so “Medicaid/CHIP eligibility should be extended to all immigrant children irrespective of immigration status to age 26 years.” So go ahead, abuse away, the nation’s pediatricians will make sure taxpayers pick up the check.

4. By attacking the world’s single most effective opponent of slavery and prostitution. As many a historian can tell you, the spread of the Christian faith was the single greatest force rolling back the ubiquitous slavery and prostitution of the pagan world. There is nothing a venom-hearted child trafficker fears as much as a strong Christian community. Coincidentally, I’m sure, here comes the AAP this year with a no-holds-barred attack on Christian conscience in America, calling for banning all religious exemptions to their latest diktats. Yes, the AAP boasts it will go to court to force every child in America to get Covid boosters, but they think it’s the Christian parents queasy about turning their children into mRNA pincushions who are “problematic” zealots.

If that thought experiment isn’t enough, one need only look at the AAP’s recent track record to see that it goes out of its way to fight for policies with no discernible purpose other than increasing the amount of childhood suffering in this world. Recall, this is the same organization that memory-holed its own handouts on the importance of facial expression for childhood development in order to support mask mandates for toddlers (actual quotation: “when one sense is taken away, the others may be heightened”). The AAP also strongly supports the genital mutilation of healthy children and does its best to hide from its own patients the very real dangers of hormonal contraception (in fairness, maybe it just doesn’t want all those child sex slaves getting pregnant and taking abortion appointments away from American citizens).

Now, there is one remote but plausible alternate explanation for the AAP’s actions. It is possible, at least theoretically, that The American Academy of Pediatrics is not in fact a non-partisan medical organization dedicated to the health of children, but a rabidly political far-left front group with an insane devotion to advancing Democrat Party policies at any cost.

Have we uncovered a front for a grooming gang, or simply stumbled into a DNC subreddit? There is likely no way to tell without a federal investigation. The AAP does, after all, receive tens of millions of dollars from you every year. We should put that money on hold until we figure out what exactly is going on. On the other hand, we could simply go ahead and punish them outright without any investigation, just out of spite, an open abuse of power – after all, the AAP itself would be the first to argue we shouldn’t let any problematically Christian sense of justice or mercy get in the way!